Amos first resided in Dunbarton, NH on what today (ca.1934) is known as the Ira Colby farm in the south part of the town. This was the next farm to his fathers. He later exchanged this farm with Willaby Colby of Bow and removed to Bow, NH where he resided on the Elijah Colby place on Wood Hill in Bow, NH. Amos is buried in a small cemetery at Bow Center, NH just west of the Baptist Church. (In the 1930's there was a small American Flag on his grave which suggests he may have served in a war.) He purchased in 1823 the Elijah Colby place at Wood Hill and their son remained on the homestead in Dunbarton having married Massey Wheeler (Ref. Colby Book). one had written note suggest he may have died on Feb. 1, 1855.
In 1848 he was serving as Justice of the Peace for the Town of Bow, New Hampshire